OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are seeking backend engineers to design and scale the systems that drive their developer and enterprise-facing products, collaborating closely with various teams to deliver AI capabilities while ensuring performance and safety at a global scale.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end development lifecycle for new platform capabilities and integrations with other systems
- Collaborate closely with product, design and external customers to understand problems and implement effective solutions
- Work with the research team to improve our next generation of models
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional engineering experience (excluding internships) in relevant roles at tech and product-driven companies
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Typescript or similar) and distributed systems concepts
- Enjoy building infrastructure that supports billions of requests and petabytes of data
- Care deeply about reliability, safety, and performance in production environments
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-growing, product-driven companies by effectively navigating loosely defined tasks and managing competing priorities or deadlines
- Former founder, or early engineer at a startup who has built a product from scratch is a plus
- Interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required)